Genome Project Quotes

• The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

  James D. Watson

  Essence, Bipolar, Levels

  "Watson retires". Prof. James D. Watson's statement on blacks and whites just before his retirement from the post of Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

  Samuel Wilson

  Environmental, Doe, Size

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• Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Silly, Race, People

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• La visión general del proyecto del genoma humano ha sido de gran entusiasmo y prensa positiva, pero hay personas que tienen preocupaciones que son bastante razonables, y se asustan de cosas que no entienden.

  Thomas Cech

  Vistas, Gente, Emoción

  "Financiación por encima de la investigación científica". EMBO informa de una entrevista, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. 15 de septiembre de 2001.

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• One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

  Samuel Wilson

  Responsibility, Science, Decision

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• Nada en biología tiene sentido si no es a la luz de la evolución.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Salud, Ciencia, Luz

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• As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells.

  Sydney Brenner

  Mean, Science, Cells

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• It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

  Samuel Wilson

  Power, Environmental, Important

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• Con toda probabilidad, el Proyecto Genoma Humano descubrirá algún día que soy portadora de un gen recesivo del optimismo, porque a pesar de todos mis esfuerzos sigo sin poder tener ni un par de días de desesperanza. Los futuros científicos lo llamarán el síndrome de Pollyanna, y si tuviera que adivinar, diría que el mío ha sido un largo historial de persecución del arco iris.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Couple, Best Effort, Chasing Rainbows

  "Condenados". Libro de Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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• Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Thinking, Google, Quality

  Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. January 1, 2007.

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• Compartimos la mitad de nuestros genes con el plátano. [Tras el anuncio en junio de 2000 de que el Proyecto Genoma Humano había completado un borrador de la secuencia genética humana].

  Robert May, Barón May de Oxford

  Ciencia, Mitad, Plátanos

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• Recientemente, los resultados del Proyecto Genoma Humano han echado por tierra una de las creencias fundamentales de la Ciencia, el concepto de determinismo genético. Nos han hecho creer que nuestros genes determinan el carácter de nuestras vidas, pero las nuevas investigaciones revelan sorprendentemente que es el carácter de nuestras vidas el que controla nuestros genes. En lugar de ser víctimas de nuestra herencia, en realidad somos dueños de nuestro genoma.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Believe, Character, Research

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• A lot of people think PMI is the genome project 2.0. No. This is about all the influences on disease - genetics is in there, but the environment is in there as well, health choices, behaviors, all the factors that are important, otherwise we're not doing what we promised we would do - which is in a holistic way look at how people stay healthy or how do they fall ill.

  Francis Collins

  Otoño, Pensamiento, Gente

  Fuente: www.politico.com

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